Events on Saturday, December 13
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- Santacon
- @ Various locations
- Things we love: bar crawls/booze, dressing up and acting a fool, Christmas, and any opportunity to poke fun at said holiday.... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Rhett Miller
- @ The Bell House
- A Texan at heart, Austin-bred rocker Rhett Miller sticks close to his Lone Star State roots. There's no rush to his... View details »
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- Designer Holiday Trunk Show
- @ The Bell House
- The Bell House hosts one-stop shopping today, as local designers, chefs, paper-makers, and jewelers set up the Holiday Trunk Show. Score... View details »
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- Oneida Festival
- @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
- Any day now, the Knitting Factory will abandon its Manhattan homestead and head to Brooklyn. The future promises a snug new... View details »
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- C.L.U.E.
- @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
- A.L. Steiner and Robbinschilds designed Color Location Intimate Experience (C.L.U.E.) in collaboration with AJ Blandford and the Seattle band Kinski as... View details »
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- Studio Sale feat. Lorena Barrezueta
- @ Studio
- Holiday shopping woes be gone — a group of Brooklyn artists is offering a stress-free antidote to the seasonal chaos with... View details »
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- Unsilent Night
- @ Washington Square Park
- Fans of flash mobs and minimalist music will want to come out for this year's Unsilent Night. Experimental composer Phil Kline... View details »
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- Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- With Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night tacked up in 98% of dorm rooms nationwide, it's hard to imagine a time... View details »
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- @ Lyceum Theatre
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Calder Jewelry
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,... View details »
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- The Twentyfirst
- @ Silver Shed
- Nestled on a roof in east Chelsea, artist-run contemporary art space the Silver Shed has only been open for a few... View details »
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- Street Art, Street Life
- @ The Bronx Museum of the Arts
- Given our current love of all things wheatpaste or graffiti, the street has become an outdoor, urban gallery of sorts. Curator... View details »
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- Slava's Snowshow
- @ Helen Hayes Theatre
- Slava Polunin's style of pantomime, which he calls "Expressive Idiotism," is on display at the revived Slava's Snowshow. When he first... View details »
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- Mario Merz
- @ Gladstone Gallery
- In 1967, Italian critic Germano Celant organized an exhibition of young artists with diverse working practices that he termed Arte Povera... View details »
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- South Pacific
- @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
- Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater... View details »
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- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Kate Gilmore
- @ Smith-Stewart
- Whether they appear foolhardy or feminist, Kate Gilmore's masochistic video performances transfix with the same fear/fascination ratio as a ten-car pileup.... View details »
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- Taking Over
- @ The Public Theater
- Danny Hoch's one-man extravaganza Taking Over gives a good name to theatre with a social conscious, using scathing humor to make... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Broken Glass
- @ Museum of the City of New York
- The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's... View details »
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- A Man for All Seasons
- @ American Airlines Theater
- A Man for All Seasons shows what happens when a government starts cannibalizing its own founding laws to suit the whims... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- @ Quad Cinema
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... View details »
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- Richard Prince
- @ Gagosian Gallery
- Part post-apocalyptic vision, part biographical flashback, Richard Prince's Canal Zone is set in primal overdrive. Filled with an abundance of virile... View details »
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- Streamers
- @ Laura Pels Theatre
- Streamers, part of David Rabe's Vietnam trilogy, is war theatre of the most absurd. The Roundabout's chilling revival reveals that Rabe's... View details »
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- Let the Right One In
- @ Angelika Film Center
- This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem... View details »
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- La Suprette 2008
- @ La Suprette
- After a particularly black Black Friday, holiday shopping may not be at the top of anyone's "things I want to do"... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Dance Dance Revolution
- @ Ohio Theatre
- Les Freres Corbusier, the cheeky and frenetic dance/theatre ensemble responsible for immersive theater environments like Hell House, is at it again... View details »
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- Synecdoche, New York
- @ Landmark Sunshine
- Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John... View details »
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- Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
- @ Museum of Arts and Design
- To celebrate the Museum of Arts and Design's new Columbus Circle location in eco-style, 50 international artists transform mass-produced household items... View details »
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- February
- @ La MaMa E.T.C.
- LeeSaar the Company — a partnership between actress/writer Lee Sher and dancer/choreographer Saar Harari — brings a split bill of dance... View details »
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- Union Square Holiday Market
- @ Union Square
- Holiday shopping is often the stuff of anxiety attacks, but it doesn't have to be bankruptcy-inducing or mind-numbing, thanks to the... View details »
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- Wendy and Lucy
- @ Film Forum
- Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the... View details »
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- The Atheist
- @ Barrow Street Theater
- In a thrilling, seductive performance, Campbell Scott portrays Kansas newspaperman Augustine Early, a tabloid reporter who lost his conscience long ago.... View details »
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- Rudy Burckhardt
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped... View details »
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- War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
- @ War Memorial Ice Skating Rink
- Avoid the fumbling tourists clogging the Rockefeller Center and Central Park rinks by hopping the ferry to Staten Island to get... View details »
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- The Firemen's Ball
- @ BAM Rose Cinemas
- Made during the Czech New Wave's abbreviated springtime, The Firemen's Ball was "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion in... View details »
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- NeoHooDoo
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- In 1972, the poet Ishmael Reed decreed: "Neo-HooDoo believes that every man is an artist and every artist a priest." The... View details »
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- Back Back Back
- @ New York City Center
- Though it probably wouldn't hurt, you don't need to be much of a baseball fan or know much about the sport's... View details »
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- Brooklyn Flea
- @ Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
- New Yorkers love their local secrets, whether it's an awesome taco truck or a hole-in-the-wall art gallery. Every Saturday in Fort... View details »
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- Improbable Frequency
- @ 59E59 Theaters
- Ireland's Rough Magic Theatre Company makes its US debut with Improbable Frequency, an absurd, over-the-top musical comedy about a British spy... View details »
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- Elizabeth Peyton
- @ New Museum of Contemporary Art
- Elizabeth Peyton's first stateside exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints is at once vast and utterly intimate. More than 100 portraits... View details »
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- Ronnie Spector's Xmas Party
- @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
- Rock 'n roll's original bad girl hosts her annual Christmas party at B.B. King's this year, putting her stamp on classics... View details »
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- The Dudion Levers
- @ Martos Gallery
- At the 1998 Grammys, "Director of Behavior" Michael Portnoy achieved as-seen-on-TV notoriety when he spazzed out beside a bewildered Bob Dylan... View details »
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- The Seagull
- @ Walter Kerr Theatre
- Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard play tortured artists in love in Christopher Hampton's pared-down translation of Chekhov's classic. Thomas' fully... View details »
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- Rachel Getting Married
- @ Various locations
- The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand... View details »
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- Cindy Sherman
- @ Metro Pictures
- After a four-year hiatus, Cindy Sherman returns strong at Metro Pictures. Her striking self-portraits continue in the clever, satirical tradition of... View details »
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- Keith Haring
- @ Deitch Studios
- Biblical law may have taken three days and an exodus, but Keith Haring's Ten Commandments have waited 23 years to grace... View details »
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- I've Loved You So Long
- @ Angelika Film Center
- English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes... View details »
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- Nayland Blake
- @ Location One
- Location One presents a survey of Nayland Blake's provocative mixed-media work, drawing from nearly every facet of Blake's 25-year career. Blake,... View details »
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- Black Watch
- @ St. Ann's Warehouse
- If you're lucky enough to score a coveted ticket to Black Watch's limited run, you're in for one helluva show. Based... View details »
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- Cory Arcangel
- @ Team Gallery
- Cory Arcangel rose to art-world fame with his hall-of-mirrors work, which cleverly (and cheekily) reappropriates media to highlight technology's protean relationship... View details »
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- Pal Joey
- @ Studio 54
- Joey Evans is a scheming-but-sweet performer who comes to Chicago with dreams of starting his own nightclub in Roundabout's revival of... View details »
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- Quilts of the 1930s
- @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
- For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women... View details »
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- William Eggleston
- @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- Democratic Camera — a long-overdue retrospective of work by William Eggleston — celebrates the career of an artist who's widely recognized... View details »
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- Blasted
- @ Soho Rep
- It's taken 13 years for Sarah Kane's extraordinarily controversial play Blasted to make it to New York, but Soho Rep's production... View details »
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- Alex Grey
- @ MicroCoSM Gallery
- Alex Grey, best known for his Sacred Mirrors series of metaphysical anatomical maps, is ready to show his (ever-evolving) self-portraits in... View details »
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- Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
- @ Daryl Roth Theatre
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of... View details »
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- Peter Callesen
- @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery
- Using ephemeral, everyday sheets of paper, Danish artist Peter Callesen realizes magical 3-D sculpture installations. His first solo US show, this... View details »
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- Deville's Holiday Special
- @ Factory Fresh
- This holiday season, Factory Fresh founder Ad Deville gives you a look at his own burgeoning body of work alongside that... View details »
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- Billy Elliot
- @ Imperial Theatre
- The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,... View details »
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- Pipilotti Rist
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Video artist Pipilotti Rist exhibits a site-specific, immersive piece commissioned by MoMA across the museum's second-floor atrium. Attendees can walk around... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Nutcracker: Rated R
- @ Theater for the New City
- Mesh corsets, hot-pink tulle, strobe lights, silent-film facial contortions, and a Sugar Plum Fairy who dispenses cocaine from her cleavage: this... View details »
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- Artists and Fleas
- @ Artists and Fleas
- The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to... View details »
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- The Cripple of Inishmaan
- @ Linda Gross Theater
- Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new... View details »
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- Counter/Culture: The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn's Storefronts
- @ Brooklyn Historical Society
- From its sprawling industrial dead zones and rusty shipyards to its rolling parks and sought-after blocks of brownstones, Brooklyn wears many... View details »
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- Make Love, Not War
- @ Black Betty
- During the day, Black Betty serves up solid samosas, couscous, and other North African/Mediterranean tasties; around midnight, the back room of... View details »
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- Mr.
- @ Lehmann Maupin
- In 2005, the painter known as Mr. first creeped out New York with his disproportionate bobble-head sculptures of wide-eyed, Japanese youths,... View details »
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- In the Heights
- @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient... View details »
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- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- @ Various locations
- Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... View details »
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- Ann Lislegaard
- @ Murray Guy
- For parts two and three of her highly referential 3D video trilogy, artist Ann Lislegaard filters her consuming mind-and-matter explorations about... View details »
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- Speed-the-Plow
- @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre
- Finally freed of the 1989 casting of Madonna, David Mamet's full-throttle assault on Hollywood's penchant for putting profit before product is... View details »
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- We Are Wizards
- @ Cinema Village
- Even if you are wholly untouched by any curiosity about wizards, you'd have to have been lurking under a rock (and... View details »
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- Beyond a Memorable Fancy
- @ EFA Project Space
- The Elizabeth Foundation offers up a group show of cutting-edge printmakers alongside a host of ideas that spring from the ancient... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sleepwalk With Me
- @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker
- Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells... View details »
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- Robert Morris
- @ Leo Castelli Gallery
- Like Paris between the Wars, '60s New York was the epicenter of the art world — whether in theory, tectonic creativity,... View details »
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- Amarcord
- @ Film Forum
- Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975, Federico Fellini's Amarcord is his most sentimental and unabashedly... View details »
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- A Christmas Tale
- @ IFC Center
- In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... View details »
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- Brooklyn Indie Market
- @ Brooklyn Indie Market
- The Brooklyn Indie Market is the stateside equivalent of an Arab souk. Located a stone's throw from Smith Street's many tasty... View details »
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- Misnomer Dance Theater
- @ Joyce Soho
- Chris Elam is a rare bird: a downtown New York choreographer who appeals to a wider audience: look to his work... View details »
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- Gilbert & George
- @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
- The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In... View details »
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- Pina Bausch
- @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
- Tanztheater is one of the most dynamic styles of contemporary dance, incorporating a collage of music, dialogue, and stage design with... View details »
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- Ice Skating in Prospect Park
- @ Wollman Rink
- While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks... View details »
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- C215
- @ Ad Hoc Art
- Parisian artist C215 has been peeking from the shadows on a cross-continental level, and he's ready for his first stateside solo... View details »
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- The Brooklyn Block Party
- @ Ad Hoc Art
- Block parties are a classic Brooklyn fixture, but the Ad Hoc gallery puts a special twist on it: this one is... View details »
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- Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
- @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich.... View details »
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- Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
- @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
- Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message... View details »
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- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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